A slow mind may nurture more creative ideas

A slow mind may nurture more creative ideas – life – 30 March 2010 – New Scientist

Jung suggests that slower communication between some areas may actually make people more creative. “This might allow for the linkage of more disparate ideas, more novelty, and more creativity,” he says.

Other studies have hinted that white matter might be similarly affected in some psychiatric disorders (see “The brain’s other half”). So the result also strengthens the link between creativity and mental illness. One of the triggers for Jung’s study was the finding that when white matter begins to break down in people with dementia, they often become more creative.